The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-21
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There are only two professional
prize-f ghters in Italy.

AA - apttu. HIS dccOtlIiS lOi tiiC &
tude of hot springs in that country.
The lettuce growth in the southern
part of California is said to be more
crisp and delicate than any grown in
the East.
Sarah Bernhardt believes that touch
ing the shoulder of a hunchback per-
son brings good luck, while Patti will
mot sign contract OH Tuesday.
The tunnel recently completed at
SehemnitZ. Hungary, is 1927 miles
3ong, the longest one in the world. 1t
took one hundred years to build it.
Mrs Fisher, a brunette with good
features. fine eyes, and a ready tongue,
runs an eighty-horse power Harris
Corliss engine in Providence, and does
it well.
Discussing the problem of disposing
of telegraph and other electric wires,
she London Standard remarks that in
aAmerican cities they are run along the
streets s'on ornamental poles.
Dr. Thomas A Emmet, of New York.
who owns one of the finest collections
of Washington's letters and manu-
scripts in the country, is a grand
nephew of Emmet, the famous Irish
patriot.
The countess of Aberdeen still keeps
np her interest in the higher education
of women in Ireland, aud has given
yearly exhibition to Alexandria college,
the prescribed course being in English
and French.
Mary Anderson says she will not
marry until she leaves the stage, and
she won't leave the stage until old age
compels her to. The chance of her be-
coming somebody's grandmother is not
particularly hopeful.
Lady Brassey, the narrator of the
..Voyage of the Sunbeam, has an
apartment whose prevailing decoration
is the monkey, which is depicted on
walls, carpets and ceiling, and whose
figure is utilized in every sort of de-
sign.
A writer in Washington newspaper
suggests that the word ''boodle' is
doubtless derived from the Dutch word
..boedel," which means property OF
goods A s.boedelster,' he says, is the
attorney OF other person who finally
possesses the ssboedel."
An English agricultural paper tells
of duck whose egg-laying record is
as follows: In 1878 she laid 211; in
1879, l43; in 1880, 145; in 1881, 155;
in 1882, 81; iii 1888, 30-total, 769.
She has now ceased laying, and is
resting ol her laurels.
William D. Howells' wife says that
her husband writes as a man saws
wood. The trouble with MI. Howells
is that he doesn't keep his pen creased,
as the wood-sawyer treats his saw to
Bacon, and there is more or less
screeching, as it were.
A young man playing billiards in
Sequel, Cal, was bothered by corn
on one of his little toes. He yanked
of his boot, cut off the toe with a
chisel, stopped the flow of blood with
cobwebs, bound up the stump and
resumed the interrupted game.
Dr. Edward Olney, professor of
mathematics in the university of Michi-
gan, whose death was recently record
ed, was known among the students as
..Old Toughy." This was reference,
mot to his own character, which was of
great moral elevation, but to the indi-
gestibility of his textbooks by the
undergraduates.
In Florida houses are very different
affairs from those in the North. 1aths
and plaster are not essential TO COM
fort, and few houses have them. For
the most part the new houses in Flor
ida villages and in the newly-cleared
Hands are very small boxes, containing
only two or three rooms.
Mr.. George Bancroft has German
hody-servant who has been with him
ever since he was at Berlin. The
servant wakes the historian precisely
at z O'Clock every morning and pre-
pares his clothes for him to put on,
and an hour later brings him his break
fast, of which the principal feature is
j fine wheat bread.
Henry Clews, the Wall street broker,
sremarks that ''the man who can't make
milk and honey to live on out of the
prosperity which is going to prevail
throughout the country for the entire
year of 1887 ought to die for the bene-
dit of his family. When a man has a
few millions to begin with the crop
of milk and honey is very easily har-
vested.
Alma Tadema has quaint iron bell,
copied from an old German or Dutch
anodel, in the shape of woman with
enormous petticoats, who hangs from a
nvrought-iron bracket, while her stream
ang hair flies out in ten rays. 1t is
placed eight or ten feet from the floor
and is rung by long iron chain, deli
cately wrought, which hangs straight
down from it.
The newest and most extensive min
ing camp in Montana is Butte Anacon-
da, which, with its $4,000 inhabitants,
supports four daily newspapers, as
many brass bands, 7everal variety thea
fers, an opera-house, and a large num-
ber of some of the worst gambling re-
sorts, and saloons ever established in
that part of this country. The city has
$4,000 in its treasury, and is only
four years old.
The fiber of the pita plants, which
grow in great abundance in Honduras
is used by the natives for various pur-
poses. 1t is converted into thread fol
sewing boots and shoes, and into nets
fshlines and cordage. The finest and
most costly hammocks are also made o1
it. Small quantities which have been
sent to this market have been manu-,
factured into handkerchiefs, laces, rib
bons, false hair and wigs.
The Callicoon IN. " Echo has the
youngest eompositor ON record. She
is only 9 years old and sets type easily,
but can not empty her s.sticks.' '.In-
credible as it may seem," says the
editor of the Echo, ..the little typeset-
ter often sets from one to four stick
fuls from our manuscript, sometimes
correcting a slip in our grammar Oh
spelling, and is never as happy as when
sitting at the case ''helping papa. y
Among the Montana Blackfeet In
dians polygamv is still rife, though the
redskins are beginning to abandoA ii
that is to say, the Indians take nc
more plural wives When buffalo were
plenty-wheu more squaws meant